Swart Donkey

The easiest problems to tackle are the ones that focus on things that you can count. If you can count something, it is easier to control. ST...

We understand things better if we are directly involved. We all have to live somewhere, and so houses are the default big asset we think of ...

You need support in your planning. It is all well and good to have specific goals, but we go through waves and moods, and we are not consist...

Find value in the abundant that is neither contained nor containable. Find value in things that are difficult to monetise. When you want to ...

Until you are the decision maker, there are lots of people who will be in positions to choose the options that are available to you. Good id...

Doing well in exams is not just about knowing the information in a I-can-google-it way. The first time I wrote open-book exams (when you can...

The early bird gets the worm. The second mouse gets the cheese. My brothers are both Doctors. Perhaps that is why I am not. I saw the years ...

I like being a believer, so I have always been susceptible to “Drinking the Kool-Aid”. I try balance that with healthy scepticism and good o...

Making money is not just based on skills and knowledge. It also requires capital and containers. Capital provides endurance and resilience. ...

Ideally, we would have a very transparent relationship with asking and offering. Money is made by solving problems for decision makers with ...

Money is a smarter form of barter. It is a communication tool that allows us to match asks with offers, without needing to swap needs. Money...

Money is made by solving problems for decision-makers with money. Desire to solve those problems is not enough. You need the skills and know...

There is not enough work. Much of the work there is does not pay enough to have some left over to build capital. It is not simply a case of ...

Money is made by being able to clearly identify, articulate, and solve problems for decision makers with money. Solving problems requires sk...

“What do you want to be when you grow up?”. How you make money has got nothing to do with who you are! Making money has very tight constrain...

In an ideal world the market would scream signals at us unambiguously. If we were brave, we would all focus on being able to clearly and tra...

A price is just a quote until someone actually pays it. It’s just an offer. Imagine someone walking up to the door of your house and offerin...

There are a limited number of jobs. There are a limited number of employers. Many of the jobs that people currently do are being mechanise...

Money is made in boxes. That is the problem with “out the box” thinking. Most of our problems are not unique. If the solution is too creat...

If we were all farmers, delegation would be easier. The person giving the task, and the person accepting the task would understand each ot...